Re: autofs-3.1.5

[Rich McClellan]

On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:

> The problem I noticed is that the autofs script that comes with Debian
> 2.2 has a text for /etc/auto.master, and if that exists, it *doesn't*
> look at the auto.master YP map! This is a change of behaviour (one I
> disapprove of). Since the default Debian installation has some (silly,
> IMHO) sample /etc/auto.master file, I just blew that away and
> rebooted.
> 

Red Hat (6.2, 6.1 and 5.2) all exhibit the same behavior:  If
/etc/auto.master exists the YP map is not checked, even if nsswitch.conf
specifies that nis should be checked before files.

                Rich